Ravel: Complete Piano Works

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
October 10, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Maurice Ravel
    • PERFORMER
      Konstantinos Destaunis
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 10, 2025
    • UPC
      5029365103367
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10336
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Ondine

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    2. II. Le gibet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    3. III. Scarbo

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    4. No. 1. Noctuelles

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    5. No. 2. Oiseaux tristes

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    6. No. 3. Une barque sur l'Océan

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    7. No. 4. Alborada del gracioso

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    8. No. 5. La Vallée des Cloches

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    9. Valses nobles et sentimentales (version for piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    10. Jeux d'eau

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    11. I. Modéré

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    12. II. Mouvement de Menuet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    13. III. Animé

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    14. No. 1. Prélude

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    15. No. 2. Fugue

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    16. No. 3. Forlane

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    17. No. 4. Rigaudon

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    18. No. 5. Menuet

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    19. No. 6. Toccata

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    20. Pavane pour une infante défunte (version for piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    21. Menuet antique (version for piano)

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    22. Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    23. A la manière de Borodine

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    24. A la manière de Chabrier

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    25. Sérénade grotesque

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    26. Prélude

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis

    27. Menuet in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Maurice Ravel

      Performer: Konstantinos Destounis


Konstantinos Destounis has made a speciality of Ravel’s piano works, playing them in concert on many occasions, including a two-night survey of the whole solo-piano output at the Conservatoire in Athens last November. He made this recording around the same time and captures the sense of music on the wing, still wet on the page from the pen of its fastidious creator. Born in Athens in 1991, Destounis studied in Thessaloniki and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg before taking his Master’s at the Royal College of Music in London. Springboard to his performing career has been winning many international piano competitions, most notably the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens, the Southern Highlands in Canberra and the Bremen European Piano Competition. On this album, his first major recording, he reveals himself to be a compelling interpreter of music which still sets a benchmark among pianists for technical finesse and musicianship. For Ravel, as for Beethoven and Stravinsky, the craft of composition was an essentially pianistic endeavour. While his image has become fixed in popular reception by masterpieces of orchestral colour such as Boléro, La valse, and Daphnis et Chloé, the composer regarded the processes of composition and orchestration as separate. He remarked to his student Vaughan Williams that ‘without a piano one cannot invent new harmonies’. Ravel paid tribute to his teacher Gabriel Fauré as ‘the origin of whatever pianistic innovation my works may be thought to contain’. All the same, the pianistic influence of Saint-Saëns makes its presence felt too, and Chabrier in the early pieces. Perhaps Ravel becomes more himself in each successive piece, from the Sérénade grotesque of 1892–93 through to Le tombeau de Couperin of 1914–17, but the process is one of refinement rather than radical transformation, taking in the darkly disturbing imagery of Gaspard de la nuit, which rapidly assumed totemic significance within the modern piano literature.